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How did you get such a high render distance? What's FPS like? Block generate and send distance are at 32 (512 nodes), batching (client_mesh_chunk) at 4. FPS is fine but this is a new PC. Due to bugs in block management, I currently do not limit the amount of blocks loaded. Of course, the mapgen its...

Huh. I was always under the impression that one would participate in a game jam simply for the fun of it. Many game jams don't even have prize money, and even the ones that do just provide it as an incentive to spark a bit more competition between people so they produce better games. Not having any...

Wow. Have you ever thought about... being considerate? At all? The prize money isn't all that much, but it all comes from donations from people who just like Minetest. It's not like they can force people to donate more. And "kids' compo?" Really? What did I say there that's so insulting? ...

16,777,21.6 is 2^24/10. Not sure why the division by ten, but otherwise that's the maximum value you can represent in 3 bytes. Not sure why that would be a limit The mantissa of single precision floating point numbers is 24-bit, past which you cannot represent every integer precisely. The division ...

You're disgusted that we are allowing people to use the tools available to them if the licensing clearly allows them to do so? Ludum Dare allows AI assets for the jam portion as well. I'm sorry you feel this way. There are currently no models available with weights derived entirely from public doma...

Freely-licensed media from third-parties or AI is allowed if documented properly Freely-licensed media from [...] AI That is a very bold claim and also entirely incorrect, and will be incorrect even if corrupt or clueless judges end up botching the currently ongoing court cases. I'm quite disgusted...

Should we perhaps even migrate to yet another service like Discourse? Discourse is garbage, it's just broken. Hijacks your browser hotkeys, messes with the DOM, depends on JS to even read, cannot be easily archived. Absolutely worthless and a textbook case of second system syndrome. I'm not sure ho...

These are T-junction cracks, I'm surprised nobody has pointed it out yet. The engine's greedy meshing fails to account for the fact that a vertex living on the line between two other vertices - but not connected to them - usually doesn't end up touching that line after a series of lossy transformati...

You're describing essentially an octree. I've thought of LODs a lot as well so let me add what I know. First, textures currently mip out to basically a single color within the practical viewing range. (i currently consider 500 the new "okay" range) This means that beyond some point, you sh...

You can do a shutdown with a reconnect button, there's a flag for this in request_shutdown.

If you're doing things like realtime script reloading, it would also be useful to create proper error handlers for all the callbacks so that the server doesn't immediately die from loading in a buggy script, unless it encounters a type of assert that specifically tells it to croak. Also bear one thi...

Some time ago I've implemented texture-based heightmaps using a stochastic texture sampling algorithm. Perhaps it is possible to use the algorithm to add high-frequency detail to the mapgen. https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?p=424261#p424261 https://github.com/HybridDog/texture_noise But why...

Nobody can stop you unless you violate the GPL by not giving us the source, but who's going to use it unless it's better than original Minetest? Being identical and in sync with the master branch except for not having ads would mean it's impossible for it to not be better, similar to how any ad blo...

I'm very curious to hear how would you stop me from making a fork that doesn't have the ads.

current state of the mapgen

Mapgen starting to look alright. I made it compile as HLSL so that I could preview the map instantly without having to remake a world and explore it.

I prefer rebuilding, basically keep the current system but make it binary with an API, not a parsed string. If you try to bundle a UI scene graph system with it, you'll just break people's existing ones.

Regarding OP's question: I did this years ago, it worked but clients currently do not free old skybox textures and just leak them, so the client would eventually run out of RAM and crash. 1670240757009.jpg 1670240755028.jpg zxc.jpg I had an emulator of mgv7 set up, using noiseparams queried from the...

Nininik wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 12, 2023 17:18

wait, is that for the development of mibi?

Yup, and it's so fast now that even in synchronous mode it doesn't block the main thread much. I'd risk saying it's much faster than the builtins. (in return for being a lot less general purpose or portable)

Make the engine easier to compile. This is the biggest reason people don't bother not only contributing but also testing. Compiling on Windows currently gives you the following options: - Join the Microsoft botnet and use MSVC - Use a third party package system like MSYS2 and be prepared that things...

Readded the slab filter and vectorized the entire mapgen.

SAO is a ServerActiveObject; aka "entity". Actually I meant CAO traffic; packets instructing the client how to render the entity. Those are the biggest bandwidth killer. Certain state changes trigger redundant re-sends of other state, which has nothing to do with the modder's skill, it's j...

Day 3 of the mapgen from scratch; at the moment it resembles mgflat with added topsoil gradients.

Oh thanks, I missed that.

I was looking at what https://github.com/corsix/ffi-reflect does to walk GC memory, didn't occur to me to just check.the cast table.

Humble beginnings of a C mapgen.
It's utter garbage, but it's fast garbage.